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Ron Chalmers, edmontonjournal.com
, _. r. H) u6 f7 b+ B) e( dPublished: Wednesday, April 04, 2007
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# t8 c) r9 E6 ?- dAverage house prices have hit half a million dollars in southwest Edmonton and almost $400,000 across the Capital region.
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“It is clear that housing prices have not yet peaked,” Carolyn Pratt, president of th Edmonton Real Estate Board said Wednesday, releasing the March sales figures from the Mutiple Listing Service.
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Edmonton-area prices averaged $398,476 for single-family homes and $325,339 for all housing forms.
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3 \, d, b( k: H/ [2 h/ ~2 DIn only the first three months of this year, average home prices have climbed 12.4 per cent, so Pratt has abandoned her earlier forecast of a 15 per cent increase for the full year.5 t; b% E9 o0 f
' b* ~* e) ]. W( @2 V“We’re predicting that prices will continue to rise until August, at four to five per cent per month, then at two per cent per month,” she said today.# @7 A8 f- _/ c1 v
Average prices for single-family homes varied from $501,838 in Southwest Edmonton, and $484,168 in St. Albert, to $320,600 in Morinville, $312,730 in northeast Edmonton and $281,480 in central Edmonton. |
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